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v:TJ(K&L 'i'" JB-. Tf 1T-' 3W'&' kc ' HRS fmrzssrL s CWL YfttHew to the Line.Vol. I..SALT LAKE CITY, TJTAJ3, DECEMBER 14, 1895.No. 16.OUR TICKETXTOR 1896.For President:JOHN T. MORGAN,Or ALABAMA.For Vice-President:WILLIAM J. BEYAN,OF NEBRASKA.OUR PLATFORM:FREE SILVER, MORE MONEY, ANDAMERICA FOR AMERICANS."We fling this banner to thebreeze, and nail it to our masthead.It -will inspire hope, and bring arich reward to toiling' millions ofour countrymen.Hurrah for Morgan and Bryan!of his office to crush the vital interests of the great middle classesjn the South and "West.Give us Morgan and a good running mate from the "West and thepeople of this country will gladlyunite tor elect them, and a politicalreformation will set in, which willfinally bring prosperity and happiness to the homes of millions ofour fellow countrymen.MORGAN FOR PRESIDENT.Senator Morgan, of Alabama,has recently distinguished himselfagain, by the delivery ok a greatspeech, relating to our BearingSea controversy with Great Britain.The Senator on this occasion, aswell as on many others, has demonstrated his profound knowledge offoreign affairs and his true Americanism. John T.Morgan is the peer ofany nian in the U. S. Senate, andbut few men in that body care tocross swords with him in debate.He is the coming man; and we predict his statesmanship will be 'fullyrecognized by his countrymen byputting him in nomination forPresident in 1896. His career inpublic life has been consistent andhonorable, and as chief executiveof the country, he would be theservant of the masses and not theclasses. He is a typical American,sound on the fipnnpial question,and thoroughly conversant withstate questions, .foreign and domestic The South should be recognizedin the great struggle between thepeople sad the money power, as wein. the West realise the South iswith us solidly for free silver, andher -votes with ours will elect thepresident. No raaa south of theIf aeon and Dixon line has beenBOBunated for president since I860.That the people of that section ar$aa patriotic as they are in the East,or North, there is no question."Why, then, should we. be eternallyseeking a candidate from. NewYork, er some other soney center,-who, whea elected, wee the powerTHE BROAD AX IN THE EASTAND WEST.The following letter and extractfrom a great western newspaper, received a few days ago, provesthat the Broad Ax is read and appreciated far from home:U. S. Court House,Office of the Recorder of Deeds.Washington, D. C,Nov. 30, 1895.Mr. Julius F. lay lor, Editor"Broad Ax," SaU Lake City, Utah,Dear Sir. Long ago I intendedto write you m congratulation uponthe soundness of your great speech.I wish it was possible to have sent acopy of it into the home of everycolored voter in this whole country,especially so much of it as relates tothe true history of slavery. Itshould become a national campaigndocument.Go on Mr. Taylor, in your goodwork of opening the eyes of ourpeople; your reward will come byand by. When I started it wasvery nearly all curses and blows.Yours for an enlightened citizenship."The Broad Ax is ihe name of answ silver paper recently started inSalt Lake City. It advocates thenomination of Senator Morgan forpresident. There is nothing thematter with Senator Morgan. Heis not only eminently qualified, butthe South is entitled to recognition.It must furnish a majority of electoral votes cast for silver. Whyshould it not furnish the candidate?"We presume modesty alone forbid the World-Herald from also ea-dorsing our candidate for vicepresident, the Hon. W. J. Bryan.The ticket we have named is taking well among the friends of silver;and should these men receive thenomination their election is certain,as there will be a "solid West' aswell as a "solid South."C. H. J. Taylor.The above letter is from one ofthe 'brightest and most progressive colored Democrats in the nationMr. Taylor was nominated byPresident Cleveland for the positionof minister to Bolivia, in 1893, buta Republican Senate, prompted byenvy and inborn dislike to our race,refused to confirm him; the President thereupon named Mr. Taylorfor Recorder of Deeds for theDistrict of Columbia, which position he now holds. Such responsesto pur feeble efforts go a long wayto encourage and strengthen us inour fight to "bring the colored votersoutof the mentaland political slaveryin which so many of them are nowheld. But a brighter day is surelycoming; and we trust we shall beable to continue the warfare untilit dawns. We would say,, by wayof explanation, that Mr. Taylor ofWashington, is not a relative ofours "not brothers, so relation."Following the above letter, camethis extract from the Omaha WorldHerali, with the compliments cfW.J. Bryan, editor.DOCTOR GROVER CLEVELAND. President Cleveland, in his recent message to Congress, is led tosay, "Many of my countrymen,whose sincerity I do not doubt, insist that the cure for the ills nowthreatening us, may be found-ia thesingle and simple remedy of thefree coinage of silver."How in the world the Presidentreceived this piece of information,and who some of the many are whomaintain that position, we are leftin darkness. We think Mr. Cleveland is mistaken in his conclusionsin this regard. No one that wecan call to mind, in either branchof Congress, or on the stump, orin the press, has ever maintainedthat the free coinage of silverwould be a panacea for all the national ills with which we are nowafflicted. No well posted modernphysician relies on a single remedyfor a cure, but combines well-knownand oft tried medicines, togetherwith good nursing and a strict obrservance of the laws of hygiene.In our case the doctors in charge ofthe patient, insist upon the "singlegold cure'1 which is producing acongestion in a small portion of thenational anatomy, and a depletionof the circulating medium in allthe remainder. We suggest achange, by mixing a little silverwith the gold, and using a small"greenback" plaster for the weakparts. We also believe the patientshould not be disturbed by a lot ofnoisy visitors from foreign lands,bat should be kept quiet and allowed to enjoy the climate andscenery of the United States, andnot be compelled to inhale thepoisonous gases emitted from thesewer pipes leading from Europeand Asia. Let us protect our ownsick, before we- invite the Moral,intellectual, and. financial cripplesof the earth to come here for hospital treatment.Doctor Cleveland also states,that we as a natien, would be humiliated by the consciousness thatwe htd "parted company with all theenlightened and progressive nationsof the world," should we adopt thebimetalic standard.Well, it would not be the firsttime we parted company with thesefellows. We rather turned oarback on this crowd in 1776, andwe have had no reason to feel humiliated yet. It sometimes is verygood policy to shun our neighbors,especially if they have got somecontagious disease that we don'twant. In tact it is ofttimea necessary to quarantine, even against an"enlightened" and "progressive"neighbor, to avoid smallpox, scarletfever, or cholera. The UnitedStates is no longer an infant; it isbig enough and strong enough togo it alone if given a chance. Ifwe "but set the pace in thedirection of benefitting humanity, these old, sleepy powersof Europe, will soon be found following our example, as they haveIB many respects during the lastcentury. The world moves forward, not backward; and if weread the signs of the times aright,it is moving in an opposite direction from the President's idea.From J. L. Reade, senior member of the firm of Reade and Garrett: Chicago, Illinois,Dec. 3rd, 1895.. F. Taylor, Esq.Dear Sir and Friend We havehad the pleasure of receiving several of your papers from you, illustrating year convictions, amd, nodoubt, doing good work in a mightycause, one that every person, whohas the welfare of the country atheart, should support. The peopleneed the honest dollar. The dollarsof their daddies. Good silver dollars that have the stamp of UdcIcSam on their face and their back.When that good -time comes, prosperity will follow. ' The West willbecome a garden and the mountainshives of industry. The Gold bugsand the usurer's will hide their diminished heads and the cent per centrobbers will have lost their preciousprivilege of taking their pound, offlesh and the heart's bloed of thepeople.Let your good work go aheadand arouse the people to their opportunity and place themselvee onrecord, aa free men and not bebound to the chariot of the financial Juggernaut, that will crush him.and his friends into financial ruin.Yours yery truly,J. L. Rzasx.--.-H- - ",Sv - s . j-3' Ht'n.-dL-.:v. ?&